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expressiveness

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ex·pres·sive  (k-sprsv)
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or characterized by expression.
2. Serving to express or indicate: actions expressive of frustration.
3. Full of expression; significant: an expressive glance.
ex·pressive·ly adv.
ex·pressive·ness n.
Synonyms: expressive, eloquent, meaningful, significant
These adjectives mean effectively conveying a feeling, idea, or mood: an expressive gesture; an eloquent speech; a meaningful look; a significant smile.
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Noun1.expressiveness - the quality of being expressive
quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare
picturesqueness - the quality of being strikingly expressive or vivid


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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context
Very well; if you tell a German to send your trunk to you by "slow freight," he takes you at your word; he sends it by "slow freight," and you cannot imagine how long you will go on enlarging your admiration of the expressiveness of that phrase in the German tongue, before you get that trunk.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
The discriminating observer we have been supposing might, however, perfectly have measured its expressiveness, and yet have been at a loss to describe it.
The American by James, Henry View in context
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